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A few weeks back I spent a weekend playing around with .NET and Visual Studio, I was very surprised by how pleasant the language (C#) and the IDE was to use. Al

A few weeks back I spent a weekend playing around with .NET and Visual Studio, I was very surprised by how pleasant the language (C#) and the IDE was to use. Also, I went into it with virtually no C# experience (only Java), and I pretty much picked it up immediately, I'm sure there are many differences but I was able to figure out the syntax immediately. I found the IDE really nice, and the debugging tools really powerful...Also desktop app creation felt super easy. I probably won't use C# for prime time since I develop almost exclusively for Linux, but it's always nice to peek over the fence :)

sergiotapia 13y ago
The dev tools for the .NET ecosystem are bar none. It's one of the only things I miss about working with C# when I switched over to Ruby. That and Linq. :P Give me a visual debugger over some terminal crap any day. In this regard RubyMine is a very good solution to debugging Rails applications and Ruby code.
- new299 13y ago
  It's kind of been that way since VisualStudio 6 I think, the MS debugger in VS6 was quite neat. The visual debugging tools were always pretty good. Hmm, this has got me wondering if there's anything like this available for vim, this looks like it might be neat: http://vim.sourceforge.net/scripts/script.php?script_id=663 http://vim.sourceforge.net/scripts/script.php?script_id=663 But no C/C++ support. Could be useful for Ruby though.
new299 13y ago
I remember the TechEd conference when C#/.net was introduced. The put up some Java and C# code side by side, it was almost impossible to tell them apart. They justified by saying they were both influenced by the same languages, but to be honest ".net" seemed like it was pretty much aimed as a play against Java at the times (CLR == JVM, C# == Java etc.)